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The Newsletter of the Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust Webfooter 27 2017 in Review The Newsletter of The Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust Webfooter 27 2017 in Review Welcome to Webfooter, Issue 27. This year, because we have been so busy, our ‘regular’ updates have been a little thin on the ground. To make up for this, we are providing this bumper ‘Year in Review’ issue, filled with all of the stories from the year. Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust Next year will be another busy year for us, Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre with a number of important celebrations The Royal Dockyard Chapel, and projects, and we will endeavour to Meyrick Owen Way, Pembroke Dock, SA72 6WS keep you all well informed as we progress. 01646 684220 [email protected] I would like to take this opportunity to www.sunderlandtrust.com thank all our supporters for their continued work during the year and look Facebook/sunderlandtrust forward to welcoming many of you in to Twitter/PDHeritageCent the Heritage Centre again in 2018. Instagram/pembrokedockheritagecentre With Very Best Wishes, Registered as a charity in England and Wales, number 1120476 Registered as a company Stuart Berry, Heritage Centre Manager limited by guarantee, number 05920931 Winter Closure Please note that the Heritage Centre will be closed to the public from Monday 18 December 2017 until Friday 5 January 2018. The Centre will re-open on Saturday 6 January, and opening hours will remain for the new season: Monday to Saturday, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. Please call 01646 684220 or email [email protected] for further details. 2 Webfooter 27 2017 in Review The group photograph of RAF Pembroke Dock personnel found in the Heritage Centre Archive. George is on the far right of the third row Centenarian’s connection to PD memories of his time at ‘PD’; he also never forgot his RAF number - 714851. In February this year, a copy of the above photograph, which was taken in 1944 or During wartime men of many nations 1945, winged its way across the globe to served at ‘PD’; maintaining good links centenarian, George Chung, of Old with present-day overseas communities Harbour St Catherine, Jamaica, thanks to of former service personnel is of vital the wonders of the internet. importance to us in remembering the contributions made by them. Sadly, we recently learned that George passed away only weeks after we made this contact with him. Providing the link to George was his neighbour, Kennedy Singh, who got in touch with the Trust. Locally, George was well-known and had featured in media stories about his 100th birthday as well as his ownership of a 50-year-old Morris Oxford car. Born in 1916, George was a shopkeeper before joining the RAF in 1942. After initial training in Jamaica he went overseas to the UK and was posted to RAF Pembroke Dock. George Chung, who celebrated his 100th birthday in October 2016, was posted to RAF George became a Leading Aircraftsman Pembroke Dock during WWII. George sadly in charge of stores and had fond passed away in March 2017. 3 Webfooter 27 2017 in Review Paul Laidlaw, and the Volvo P1800, at Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre with members of the Sunderland Trust team who run the Centre. Left to right: Stuart Berry, Peter Mitchell, John Evans, Paul Laidlaw and Rik Saldanha. A visit from the BBC about the famous Sunderland flying boats and the recovery of many In March, the Heritage Centre was visited artefacts from Sunderland T9044 which by a film crew for the hit BBC series sank off the town in 1940. ‘Antiques Road Trip’. Also starring in the filming was a classic Antiques expert Paul Laidlaw – who has a car used in the programme – with Paul special interest in military history – went driving a superb Volvo P1800S sports car on a journey of discovery to Pembroke dating from the mid-1960s. This is the Dock, once one of the UK’s foremost model of car made famous by Roger military towns. Moore in the TV series ‘The Saint’. This was Paul’s first ever visit to Pembroke The show was finally aired in October, Dock, which has long connections with all and whilst some of the scenes featuring three armed services, and he met up with our volunteers were cut, our own John members of the local heritage teams. Evans did feature, atop Pembroke Dock’s From the Gun Tower on Front Street he Guntower. was able to view the waterway and learned about the vital contributions Are you considering a donation to made by RAF Pembroke Dock’s flying charity instead of giving Christmas boats during the wartime ‘Battle of the Cards this year? Atlantic Campaign’, from the Sunderland Trust’s John Evans. At the Heritage Centre, Paul heard from Rik Saldanha, a volunteer and a member of the Sunderland Trust Dive Group, 4 Webfooter 27 2017 in Review Python in search of maritime history and in recent years headlines have been made with the discovery of the very well In April, worldwide adventurer Michael preserved vessels in Arctic waters. Palin returned to Pembrokeshire for the first time in over 40 years – in search of Erebus is the last remaining of the 260 maritime history and the remarkable and warships built at Pembroke Dockyard tragic story of a Pembroke Dock-built between 1814 and 1922. warship. With Ted Goddard as guide, Michael was Mr Palin visited the Heritage Centre and shown displays at the Heritage Centre met up with naval historian and Heritage relating to HMS Erebus and also walked Centre volunteer, Ted Goddard, to recall around areas of the Royal Dockyard the story of HMS Erebus which was which still remain nearly 200 years on. launched at Pembroke Dockyard in1826. Michael, one of the ‘Monty Python’ team Michael is writing a book on HMS Erebus and star of such classic television series as which, along with HMS Terror, took part in ‘Around The World In 80 Days’, was last in the ill-fated Franklin Expedition of the Pembrokeshire in 1976 when filming 1840s in the Canadian Arctic. Tragically, locally for the well-remembered feature both vessels and their crews were lost, film, Jabberwocky. Michael Palin with Sunderland Trust volunteer historian Ted Goddard, at the Heritage Centre. 5 Webfooter 27 2017 in Review The Sunderland model with Mrs Ann McPhee, and her sons Ross and Quentin. Sunderland projects launched and the extended family of former Sunderland pilot, the late Wing Also in April, the Heritage Centre saw the Commander Harry Bunting, OBE. This is launch of two Sunderland flying boat an interactive model, splitting into projects, both unique to the UK. sections which can be assembled, and is an impressive addition to the Centre’s A replica Sunderland cockpit – built by education programme. the Centre’s volunteers – and a large scale interactive Sunderland model, Mrs McPhee, who vividly remembers the created by Pembrokeshire company, Sunderlands at Pembroke Dock when her Autodromo, were launched before an family lived in the town in the 1950s, invited VIP audience. spoke of the family’s pleasure at supporting the Centre and the The cockpit, faithfully depicting a Mark I community. Her father had flown well Sunderland, has been made over the last over 1,000 hours on Sunderlands from two years by a volunteer team led by before the Second World War, on retired RAF officer, Rik Saldanha. Funding operations during the war and in the came from the Armed Forces Community 1950s and was at RAF Pembroke Dock in Covenant and the cockpit project was 1957 when these well remembered flying officially launched by the RAF’s Air Officer boats were retired. Wales, Air Commodore Adrian Williams. Replica Cockpit Funding for the 14ft wingspan Sunderland model – one of the largest yet made in During the launch ceremony, Rik the UK – was generously provided by Mrs Saldanha detailed the cockpit’s Ann McPhee, her sons Ross and Quentin development and the involvement of so 6 Webfooter 27 2017 in Review many individuals, totally at least 7,000 one of the Sunderland Trust’s first man hours. Apart from engineering work volunteers. Ron, who was much involved for the controls, fibre glass covering and in making the flight simulation for the display materials, all the work was done in cockpit, moved to Norwich last year but house by volunteers, including the returned to the Heritage Centre, working instruments and the computer- especially for the launch event. simulated flight sequences on three large Visitors can now become ‘cockpit crew’ screens fronting the cockpit. and also see the interactive Sunderland There was a special ‘welcome home’ for model at the Centre. former Sunderland airman Ron Boreham – Air Commodore Adrian Williams, the RAF’s Air Officer Wales, with Rik Saldanha, leader of the cockpit team, in the replica Sunderland cockpit. Be remembered for remembering them… Find out how: www.sunderlandtrust.com/donate/gift-in-your-will 7 Webfooter 27 2017 in Review Much needed funds raised Be part of something special… In May, the pain was worth every penny 2018 is a big year for us at the as volunteer John Mitchell braved a chest Sunderland Trust. Be a part of it and waxing to raise funds for the Trust. help us achieve our full potential. John, who had recently turned 70, www.localgiving.org/donation/pdst endured the pain and raised well over £500 in sponsorship. Family members and or call 01646 6842220 or email friends, including many members of the [email protected] to Volunteer team, witnessed John’s make a donation to us, today. fortitude as the waxing process was carried out, strip by strip, by the expert hands of local beautician Ally Doyle.
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